Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 August 2015 to Question 4785 on education institutions: licensing, how many staff were working on applications for a Tier 4 sponsor licence in each year since 2008; and if she will make a statement.

Home Office staff consider Tier 2, 4 and 5 sponsor licence applications. The number of staff working on applications for a Tier 4 sponsor licence varies according to level of demand and resource requirements. We do not record the number of staff working on Tier 4 casework, specifically.